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This is the first full book-length study in forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding -which, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor A Treatise of Human Nature . Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, aiming to raise it to its rightful position in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so often assumed, a mere collection of watered-down extracts from the earlier work. It is, rather, a coherent work with a unified argument; and, when this argument is grasped as a whole, the Enquiry shows itself to be the best introduction to the features of its author's general philosophy. Review "A pleasure to read... This book clearly presents the roles of philosophical thought in the various phenomena constituting the Enlightenment, and so will be of value to scholars and students of Hume, and will be of special value to people who are teaching the Enquiry for the first time and desire to understand how it all 'hangs together.'"--*Eighteenth-Century Thought About the Author Stephen Buckle is at The Australian Catholic University.

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Author

Stephen Buckle

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198250883

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Anthropology